Nearly 8.5 million people visit her every year. Yet few have ever heard about the time the Mona Lisa actually vanished from the Louvre in Paris for nearly two and a half years.

Researchers working in Italy believe they have found the remains of the woman who posed for Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, famed for ... found less than half a mile away in another church.

saying that having some of the artefacts in London and the rest in Athens is like cutting the Mona Lisa in half. Also known as the Parthenon Sculptures, the Ancient Greek treasures in the British ...